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[TSD]

Act of Valor



Outstanding. If you want to get real insight to the lives of a Navy SEAL team and what our brothers and sisters arms commit to then this is a must see. I think this is the type of movie best viewed on a big screen. I made an impact on me and I am a veteran. For those who have not served I would think it would open many eyes.

The previews looked about as good as the one with Charlie Sheen. I hope they just made bad trailers.

 

[TSD]

I completely agree.



I felt the whole story was rushed. Went from being a nobody to an enforcer to a decent player within the first 15 minutes. Maybe draw the characters out more or something that didn't seem so to the point.

I can agree there. There is no way this could happen in real life. He couldnt even ice skate. The John Scotts of the NHL are still better hockey players than anyone skating in a beer league (unless they are some freak diamond in the rough that never persued it), let alone someone that cant even skate.



But I let that slide because its a movie.

 

[IceHogsFan]

The previews looked about as good as the one with Charlie Sheen. I hope they just made bad trailers.

Are you comparing Act of Valor to that SEAL movie Sheen made about 15 years ago?



If so, this is nothing along those lines. I just had a couple tell me tonight that they saw it and were very moved by it. It gave them a

much broader perspective of the military that have never had before. They do not have family members that served. It gave credibility

to what I stated earlier about the movie.

 

[Bringmepie]

Saw John Carter today.



Entertaining. Lynn Collins is easy on the eyes, alas sadly bears no flesh in this Disney film.



Worth a look if your into Sci-Fi/Fantasy

I've been waiting for this since I saw the trailer during last summer's round of pro-nerd Marvel adaptations. I've been really looking forward to it, doubly so when I heard they were keeping some of the elements from the original story intact like keeping him a U.S. Civil War veteran. Like TSD said though it doesn't appear to have gotten off to a good start at the box office and was so expensive to make that it doesn't bode well for it's "franchise" sustainability (that's almost a dirty word when you see what was done with the Fantastic Four movies but think back and this "property" has been bounced around since the late 70's by movie studios and Marvel comics alike as the next, once and future "Star Wars").

 

[winos5]

I saw it hadn't done well at the box office. I'm actually reading "A Princess of Mars" right now, and it follows the story line loosely with liberal changes/additions. Its worth seeing if you like the genre, otherwise I'd predict you will be disappointed. Did I mention Lynn Collins is very attractive?

 

[Ymono37]

I saw it hadn't done well at the box office. I'm actually reading "A Princess of Mars" right now, and it follows the story line loosely with liberal changes/additions. Its worth seeing if you like the genre, otherwise I'd predict you will be disappointed. Did I mention Lynn Collins is very attractive?

She was one of the better parts of X-Men Origins: Wolverine

 

[Bringmepie]

I borrowed a DVD copy of "The Road" from the local library and started to watch it the other night. This might be one of those movies that's best seen in the theaters, not because of the grand scale of the cinematography but just because it's so bleak that it's proving difficult to watch in long stretches. I think I gave up, 30.. 45 minutes into the film? It's hard to say.. it's like one continuous.. um, road of *blech*. Don't get me wrong, Viggo is great so far and I'm impressed by the young actor playing his kid in this post-apocalyptic survival film, it's certainly the most serious take I've seen since maybe "The Day After" (they haven't said in the film what caused the apocalypse, radiation doesn't seem to be a problem so giant meteor impact maybe?) but dang it's just so bleak and hopeless to watch.

 

[phranchk]

I know there's been a lot of Stanley Kubrick in here lately. His collections are the Deal of the Day on amazon.com today.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.ht..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=00DN7WS9TKYP9YW6N4EC

 

[nana]

I liked the film analysis direction Mule tried to take us... anybody else?

 

[phranchk]

I liked the film analysis direction Mule tried to take us... anybody else?

Of course you did. She's like samesies 2.

 

[Bringmepie]

After watching the debacle that was the campy 1980 version of "Flash Gordon" this afternoon I'm sooooo glad that Disney didn't do the same thing to "John Carter" back in the early 80's when they first optioned the rights to those books. I'd always heard it was bad and never saw more than 15 minutes of it at a time on TV before but I really didn't care for it at all. I saw the 1980 pilot for "Buck Rogers" in the movie theater and as disco as that was it was way better, the following first season of the TV show too, not a big fan of the second.

 

[winos5]

Did you see John Carter then?



It wasn't campy at all. A bit of magical thinking to understand what happens sure, but thats required of the genre. Oh and Lynn Collins....

 

[nana]

Of course you did. She's like samesies 2.

HA! So true, she is most definitely samesies!

 

[Bringmepie]

Did you see John Carter then?



It wasn't campy at all. A bit of magical thinking to understand what happens sure, but thats required of the genre. Oh and Lynn Collins....

No, not yet, but I definitely intend on watching it, maybe this week since one of the local theaters has reduced ticket prices except for weekends and since TV is currently being dominated by March Madness basketball anyway...



I didn't get the impression from the trailer last summer that it was going to be campy at all. I'd heard that they stayed fairly true to the source so a bit of "magic" is to be expected, it's nearly a hundred year old story. I grew up watching the old Flash Gordon movie serials (WGN TV used to show them on Sunday mornings during the 70's along with reruns of The Cisco Kid and The Lone Ranger) which were primarily made for a children's audience but even they took the story more seriously than the 1980 Flash Gordon movie did.



I haven't read too many reviews but some of them have found fault for John Carter's slow and perhaps fatal box office start on Disney's bad marketing of the movie. I can see that, I mean even the studio name itself on a live action film (even though it's heavy on the CGI I consider it live action) makes me think of "The Apple Dumpling Gang". I've heard there was a low budget version a couple years ago where John Carter was updated to an Afghanistan War soldier and "Mars" to some other planet in some other solar system in order for it to somehow make more sense, whatever. I can handle and appreciate it being a serious take on vintage sci-fiction.

 

[roshinaya]

Trailers for the upcoming Ridley Scott movie Prometheus. Scott returning to sci-fi is giving me a chubby, as Alien and Blade Runner are some of my favorite movies. It's happening in the Alien universe but isn't really a prequel or a sequel. Trailers are possibly spoilerific, but it looks damn cool.



[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHcHYisZFLU[/media]



[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9jRaa4Wkbk[/media]

 

[Bringmepie]

Trailers for the upcoming Ridley Scott movie Prometheus. Scott returning to sci-fi is giving me a chubby, as Alien and Blade Runner are some of my favorite movies. It's happening in the Alien universe but isn't really a prequel or a sequel. Trailers are possibly spoilerific, but it looks damn cool.

Space Jockey!!!



Jerks, I kept hearing that the rumors involving the Space Jockey were false! ..oh, um, right, and by "Space Jockey" I meant the product placement for the new brand of underwear for fashionable nerds, not like, any kind of spoiler of any sort.

 

[Bringmepie]

Bwahahaha!!! I borrowed a Korean monster/SciFi film from the library last week along with the "The Road". They're due back today and I only got as far as maybe half an hour into this film but look who's in the first few minutes...



Let's be try to be broad minded about this and watch the first few minutes...



The Host (2006)

 

[supraman]

Okay I just have to say this. Kristen Stewart, of Twilight fame, is not hot or attractive. Tired of the media making her sound so attractive. She's not. She reminds of like someone from the 90s like Fionna Apple or something. And does she have facial expressions? Serious every picture I happen to be subject to is her looking bored and annoyed.



Sorry had to rant.

 

[IceHogsFan]

I have never seen any of the Twilight flicks until last night. Fox had the original on and honestly, I could not get past ten minutes of it. I tried but to no avail. I turned it on during the scene where they jumping tree to tree and found the way they talk and act to be quiet annoying. Even my teenage daughter who has seen all of them agreed with me of how annoying it is at times.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

I have never seen any of the Twilight flicks until last night. Fox had the original on and honestly, I could not get past ten minutes of it. I tried but to no avail. I turned it on during the scene where they jumping tree to tree and found the way they talk and act to be quiet annoying. Even my teenage daughter who has seen all of them agreed with me of how annoying it is at times.

I haven't seen one second of those films. and feel that I would die a little on the inside if forced to watch them





Watched Run Lola Run.

Good film, very pleasant to watch. There's some really good cinematography going on in the film-- I suggest watching it on blu ray if you get the chance.

7/10.